Furthermore, also doxastic collective intentionality can in some cases perform the task of institution-maintenance and in some cases even the task of institution creation.
Doxastic logic is a modal logic that is concerned with reasoning about beliefs.
According to doxastic voluntarism, believing and disbelieving are choices that are up to us to make.
As we saw, Goldman is skeptical about the prospects of identifying and adequately formulating regulative doxastic principles.
But the two kinds of doubt invoke quite different doxastic attitudes.
Collective entities are obviously ‘social’ in an important way; and if it is granted that such entities are bearers of beliefs and other doxastic states, shouldn't these collective states be an important target for social epistemology?
And for science to produce a hypothesis (which is itself a doxastic state) that claims that doxastic states don't exist would be illogical and self-defeating.
In general, doxastic, metaphysical, modal, semantic, or syntactic expressions are not epistemic.
A third common line of objection to doxastic theories is that we may sometimes base beliefs on reasons of which we are unaware.
No matter how self-evidently correct or right-headed the project may appear, epistemic propriety demands that doxastic commitment be delayed, one way or another, until there is data.
Origin
Late 18th century: from Greek doxastikos 'conjectural', from doxazein 'to conjecture'.